LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

An open letter to conservatives

From Russell King.

This. Is. Perfect.

And, why yes -- one of them showed up immediately frothing at the mouth, howling how it is all lies and besides this is really democrats and liberals, not him, while, of course, not bothering to provide a single fact or even a made-up example.
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K. said...

It's like they're a mastodon stuck in the LaBreas tarpits, trumpeting in rage at the dilemma it walked into with its eyes wide open.

March 23, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Foxessa said...

And who are the sabre tooths and dire wolves who also then are caught in the pits when they leaped in to dine upon the stuck mastadons?

The media? the dems? us?

The other day a friend was lamenting, "I thought when Obama won the election that everything would go back to the way it used to be, before Bush. So I was able to go back to not having to read the news and listen to people like you for information. Why didn't it?"

She isn't that good of a friend that I didn't have the urge to slap her.

Love, c.

March 23, 2010 at 5:48 PM

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